MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Migrants and Militants by Alain Badiou
Quantity overwhelms quality of French philosopher's political analysis
ARCHAIC? Gilets jaunes demonstrate in 2018
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
ANOTHER month, another Alain Badiou publication.
While this is an exaggeration, it’s true that English translations of the philosopher’s works are turning into something of a flood.
That said, as the numbers of Badiou’s available works expand, so their length contracts. The same might be said of the originality of their content as well.
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